Hydrocarbons reaction with chlorine

Rav-Acha, C.and Choshen, E. Aqueous reactions of chlorine dioxide with hydrocarbons, mdron. Set Technol, 21 (11) 1069-1074,1987. 

Also, according to Equation 1.9, the overall reaction radical chlorination takes place on a given substrate considerably faster than the overall reaction radical bromination. If we consider this and the observation from Section 1.7.3, which states that radical chlorinations on a given substrate proceed with considerably lower regioselectivity than radical brominations, we have a good example of the so-called reactivity/selectivity principle. This states that more reactive reagents and reactants are less selective than less reactive ones. So selectivity becomes a measure of reactivity and vice versa. However, the selectivity-determining step of radical chlorination reactions of hydrocarbons takes place near the diffusion-controlled limit. Bromination is considerably slower. Read on. 

The main sink for chlorine radicals is the reaction with hydrocarbons and especially with CH4 ... 

C Rav-Asha, E Chosen. Aqueous reactions of chlorine dioxide with hydrocarbons. 

What breaks the cycle Chlorine atoms released from chlorofluorocar-bons can be removed by the reaction with hydrocarbons, principally methane (CHJ,... 

Many cyanide salts burn with incandescence when heated with magnesium. Magnesium catches fire when mixed with moist fluorine or chlorine. Reactions with methyl chloride, chloroform, or other halo-genated hydrocarbons can be explosive. Heating magnesium with perchlorates, peroxides, nitric acid, or other oxidizers can cause explosion. Magnesium catches fire when combined with moist silver. 

Chen, A. S.-C., R. A. Larson, and V. L. Snoeyink. 1982. Reactions of chlorine dioxide with hydrocarbons effects of activated carbon. Environ. Sci. Technol. 16 268-273. 

Chlorine reacts with saturated hydrocarbons either by substitution or by addition to form chlorinated hydrocarbons and HCl. Thus methanol or methane is chlorinated to produce CH Cl, which can be further chlorinated to form methylene chloride, chloroform, and carbon tetrachloride. Reaction of CI2 with unsaturated hydrocarbons results in the destmction of the double or triple bond. This is a very important reaction during the production of ethylene dichloride, which is an intermediate in the manufacture of vinyl chloride ... 

Acetjiene has found use as a feedstock for production of chlorinated solvents by reaction with hydrogen chloride or chlorine (6). However, because of safety concerns and the lower price of other feedstock hydrocarbons, very Htfle acetylene is used to produce chlorinated hydrocarbons in the United States (see Acetylene-derived chemicals). 

A typical reactor operates at 600—900°C with no catalyst and a residence time of 10—12 s. It produces a 92—93% yield of carbon tetrachloride and tetrachloroethylene, based on the chlorine input. The principal steps in the process include (/) chlorination of the hydrocarbon (2) quenching of reactor effluents 3) separation of hydrogen chloride and chlorine (4) recycling of chlorine to the reactor and (i) distillation to separate reaction products from the hydrogen chloride by-product. Advantages of this process include the use of cheap raw materials, flexibiUty of the ratios of carbon tetrachloride and tetrachloroethylene produced, and utilization of waste chlorinated residues that are used as a feedstock to the reactor. The hydrogen chloride by-product can be recycled to an oxychlorination unit (30) or sold as anhydrous or aqueous hydrogen chloride. 

Higher paraffinic hydrocarbons than methane are not generally used for producing chemicals by direct reaction with chemical reagents due to their lower reactivities relative to olefins and aromatics. Nevertheless, a few derivatives can be obtained from these hydrocarbons through oxidation, nitration, and chlorination reactions. These are noted in Chapter 6. 

DA reactions with polycyclic hydrocarbon derivatives have also been applied to other macrocycles. Lukyanets and coworkers have explored this methodology by adding the unsubstituted tetraazaporphine 20 to a series of anthracene derivatives (Scheme 6). For instance, the reaction with naphthacene (after 6 h at reflux) afforded the chlorin 21 and a tetraazabacteriochlorin (bisadduct) in small amounts <00JPP525>. 

Edney, E.O., Kleindienst, T.E., Corse, E.W. (1986) Room temperature rate constants for the reaction of OH with selected chlorinated and oxygenated hydrocarbons. Int J. Chem. Kinet. 18, 1355-1371. 

There is a marked difference in chemical reactivity between bridging and terminal hydrogens. Terminally bonded hydrogens readily react in a similar manner to that observed for mononuclear hydrides. Thus reactions with chlorinated hydrocarbons such as carbon tetrachloride yield the chloro cluster complexes and chloroform. In contrast, bridging hydrides are stable and may be studied in chlorinated sol-... 

All three chlorine atoms of chloroform take part in the Friedel-Crafts reaction the product of the reaction with benzene is the important hydrocarbon triphenylmethane, the parent substance of the well-known class of dyes. Paraleucaniline, [(p) NH2.C6H4]3CH, has been converted into triphenylmethane by reductive hydrolysis of its tris-diazo-com-pound (E. and 0. Fischer). 

Chemical/Physical. Under atmospheric conditions, the gas-phase reaction with OH radicals and nitrogen oxides resulted in the formation of p-tolualdehyde (Atkinson, 1990). Kanno et al. (1982) studied the aqueous reaction of p-xylene and other aromatic hydrocarbons (benzene, toluene, o-and /n-xylene, and naphthalene) with hypochlorous acid in the presence of ammonium ion. They reported that the aromatic ring was not chlorinated as expected but was cleaved by chloramine forming cyanogen chloride. The amount of cyanogen chloride formed increased at lower pHs (Kanno et al, 1982). Products identified from the OH radical-initiated reaction of p-xylene in the presence of nitrogen dioxide were 3-hexene-2,5-dione, p-tolualdehyde, and 2,5-dimethylphenol (Bethel et al., 2000). 

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